HOLYLAND

I’m Thinking About Visiting the Holy Land. Now What?

A pilgrimage, a vacation, a faith journey… No matter what you call it, you will experience this holy place in a personal, permanent way. The Holy Land, the root of our faith heritage, home to Jesus and the Apostles, is a welcoming and endlessly fascinating experience. Find your faith or fulfill it. Identify ruins, discover a culture, or return to its embrace. Find peace or help create it. A pilgrimage is a different thing for each visitor. You’ll never view the Middle East, your faith journey, or the world in quite the same way. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Why Go?

A discovery journey to the Holy Land can:

Connect you to actual places where Jesus and the apostles lived and taught.You’ll never read the Bible the same way again.

Allow you the unique experience of meeting practicing Christians in the Middle East whose families go back to the first century

Gain a clearer understanding of the religious and political realities of the region. You’ll never read the newspaper the same way again.

Experience the deep cultural and artistic history.

You may be going to visit the holy places,

but you’ll come back remembering the faces.

How to Plan

By giving you the resources and information you need, AFEDJ can make the planning easy. Resources can help you get the most from the places you’ll see and the people you’ll meet during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

There is something for everyone, whether you are considering making a trip, have already decided to go on a pilgrimage and are in the planning process, or have already been to the Holy Land and are seeking to bring the experience home.

April, 2016 Pilgrimage Video - In April 2016 members and friends of St John's Norwood in Bethesda, Maryland, traveled on a pilgrimage that ranged from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Members of the pilgrimage pooled their photos to create this slide show of their trip.